By Christopher B. Daly
American taxpayers pay a lot of money to fund the CIA, the NSA, and a host of other intelligence agencies. They are supposed to spy on our enemies and prevent them from spying on us.
What are we getting for our money? To judge by the latest revelations about Russian exploitation of Facebook ads to undermine our 2016 presidential election, the answer would have to be: not much.
I’ve got questions:
What did CIA agents know, and when did they know it? (The Russian campaign appears to date back at least as far as June 2016)
Why didn’t they combat it? Don’t we have counter-measures to this kind of cyber-mischief? If not, why not?
Why didn’t they notify Facebook?
Why didn’t they hold a news conference last year at Langley and raise holy hell — to alert voters in time for them to know that the election was under attack?
Why don’t the congressional intelligence committees demand answers to these questions (instead of leaving it to a blogger like me)?
Is there enough evidence of election tampering to start thinking about demanding a do-over of the 2016 election?
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